DEPARTMENT OF BASIC

EDUCATION

YIBONI PRIMARY
SCHOOL

Job Description: Education Assistant

The Education Assistant (EA) could assist the teacher in following way:

o Before the lesson:

 Ensures compliance to COVID-19
 Marks the register
 Distributes worksheets or resources for use
 Distributes marked learner books or collects books to control
classwork/homework/assignments.
 Apprises the teacher of absence or any matter that warrants the
teacher’s attention.
 Involving children in reading (DEAR).
 Organise story-telling and story-sharing activities for learners.

o During the lesson:

 Ensures that leaners follow the teacher’s instructions.
 Distributes worksheets or any resources to be used by the subject
teacher during the lesson.
 Establishes, where possible, problems that could be created by non-
detection of learner challenges like poor vision or difficulty with hearing.
 Observes and notes those learners that might be struggling during the
lesson and brings them to the attention of the teacher.
 Assists leaners during class discussion and group work by providing
clarification where necessary.

o After the lesson

 Collects resource materials or learner books if applicable.
 Provides learners with notes to help summarise the lesson where
necessary.
 Keep record of learners with content gaps for assistance during
intervention classes.

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  Provides informal tasks/ remedial work/ homework for reinforcement

Supervision of Curriculum Activities:

 A teacher assistant should keep a file to record all the curriculum

activities assigned to him / her by the school.
 They should help with the development of lesson plans and resources
such as teaching aids, preparing worksheets as guided by the teacher
focusing on different topics for specific grades.
 They should help prepare the relevant material that will be needed for
teaching and learning.
 The EA can also provide emotional support where learners can confide
in him/ her and try to assist directly, outsources to help the learner.
 The EA can also be responsible to supervise study periods, provide
extra classes, playground duties and assist learners with homework to
keep learners engaged.

Feedback to learners on Assessment:

 The teacher should provide a EA with a Programme of Assessment (PoA) for

the year indicating all the dates when the assessment tasks to be written.
 The EA should help with the development, monitoring and supervision of
informal assessment of learners in the subject.
 They should assist with the marking and recording of assessment activities.
 The EA should assist by doing a diagnostic analysis of SBA tasks to identify
content gaps and misconceptions by learners and provide feedback to leaners
on the findings.
 They should help identify learners with barriers and work with the teachers to
design intervention strategies for extra support and remedial work in the
subject.

Parental support to assist their children:

 The subject teacher should work in collaboration with the EA to provide

feedback on learner performance to parents during parents evening.
 They can also assist by putting together the subject records necessary for
such meetings e.g. printed mark sheets, leaners test scripts, learner
attendance records, parents register as well as suggestion box monitoring.

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Siyabingelela siphinde siduduze kwabalinyalelwe impahla yabo ngesikhathi
sezikhukhula, ezokuxhumana ziphazamisekile kakhulu ngenxa yemvula. Isikole
sasithembise ukuthi abantwana bazothola imiphumela yabo yeTerm edlule uma
sesivalela impelasonto yePhasika kodwa isimo siyasiphikisa ngenxa
yokuphazamiseka kohlelo lwethu. Imiphumela sizoyikhipha emva kwempelasonto
yephasika. Sicela umntwana nimgcine ekhaya kusukela kusasa(14 April 2022)
bayoze babuye mhlaka (19 April 2022). Siyaxolisa kakhulu lesimo singaphezu
kokwenza kuhle siphephe thina nabantwana bethu. Siyabonga sengathi
ningaphepha ngalempelasonto yePhasika uJehova abe nemindeni yonke
emagumbini amane omhlaba.

Siyabonga ( Yiboni priamary school)

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